The Climate Show #15: Michael Ashley and the ineducable Carter

We thought we’d try for a record short show — and failed, because once again there was just to much to talk about. We have more on Eritrean volcanoes, extreme weather over the last 18 months, a new report on the dire state of the oceans, and Stoat’s big bet. Special guest is Professor Michael Ashley from the University of New South Wales, discussing the state of play in Australia, John Cook does a rapid debunk of Bob Carter, and we have electric cars, more flow batteries and the gas we do not want to smell.

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Have to include this cracker comment from that page, responding to someone who’d raised the ‘acidification’ thing –

On a side note, it’s only ‘basic chemistry’ until the pH drops through 7.0!

Ah, Graham Norton in Father Ted (pity I couldn’t find s decent version of the Caravan / Youth Group scene. Anybody else think it’s odd that FT was Linehan’s young work, and the IT Crowd came later? Oh, what the heck – here’s Father Brian Eno)

The flying business demonstrates just why we are not going to meet our quota. If you enlighten guys are unable to resist flying then no one will.

“A recent ICAO report says CO2 is now up to 2.5% of global CO2 total and growing at 3% per year under the most optimistic scenarios envisioned by industry. The science in that report clearly states that the non-CO2 forcings are real and will need to be dealt with despite the lack of attention to them so far.

There are no scenarios envisioned by international aviation companies or regulatory groups in which global aviation emissions fall…even by 2050. The game afoot in aviation is to avoid all hard caps and all carbon pricing. Period. It’s a big, uncontrolled grab for a lion’s share of the remaining global CO2 allotment in the coming decades if we are to stay under 2 degrees…with nothing in place or even envisioned outside EU to stop them.”